[HECnet] VPN?

[Andrew Back]

You can use two OpenBSD systems to tunnel Ethernet-over-IP. I did this
between two sites each with a 2M/256K ADSL cct (same ISP), and clustered an
Alphastation at one site to SimH VAX at another (remote disk access was
slow...)

Simple PF rules would block all IP on the tunnel, but not sure if you could
specify to allow only DECnet frames across.

Cheers,

Andrew

On (15:31 09/11/09), Sampsa Laine wrote:
Guys,

I realise that at the moment there aren't many people involved that do   
not have static IPs but I think as time goes on consumer grade ISPs   
are going to start cutting back on the amount of IPs a residential   
customer can have.

With this in mind, might there be some mileage in setting up a VPN for   
HECnet use? This way we would not need to worry about whether we have   
public static IPs in the future (most VPNs are happy to work with   
DYNDNS etc) and it would also add a layer of security to HECnet   
without any   changes needed to the bridge etc.

Sampsa



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